Use the Wii-mote in Mac OS X with DarwiinRemote

Just because most PCs don't have BlueTooth built in does not mean majority of Wii owners are Mac owners, how dare you!

I am a wii owner and I hate Macs!

How about "Willing to pay a premium for inferior hardware." instead?

I kid, but please don't pollute Nintendo's good name with your blatant "mac-snobbery".

also, unlike the windows version the licence for the mac wiii software does not say no jews allowed.

I'm working on a similar tool. The end goal is a menu bar app that lets you quickly pick a config (NES-mappings, mouse mode, whatever) for your favorite usage (cough emulators cough).

What was the point of writing this article for the 14th time again?

Seems like a few of you drank your haterade already today.

This is possibly the most nonsensical article Joystiq has ever posted. Why post an informative article when you can rile Apple, Windows and Nintendo fanboys all at the same time.

MAC USERS FOREVAH!!!!!!

*hides*

Doesn't seem that you know how many PC's are really sold compared to Mac's... MS is taking over the world!

Yeah, the Wii is about being white....

Basically what you are saying is "Hey, we know our statistics are BS, but we like ourselves enough to say that we are probably right."

Contradictions = 0 Credibility

Here is a video of the DarwiinRemote in action on world 1-1 http://www.world1-1.tv/BlogArchive.aspx?blogid=36

I tried it and it works fairly well as a mouse pointer, but it doesn't work well with games like Unreal...yet.

I tried it... and it's nifty. As people are quick to point out, it has a long way to go before its full potential is unleashed and all of our Macbook screens are doomed to an existance ducking flying Wii-motes as well... however, that's another issue. As someone who's "misplaced" his Apple Remote (read: have a powerbook G4 and needs to hack the OS to get Final Cut running sans remote support) this thing works great in that function.

Also, PC's suck because... well... there's more of them. Viva la revolution.

I am a lifelong Mac user and I hate the design of the Wii. Looks like a white gimcrack toaster.

Up and down movement work pretty well, side to side however is a little awkward since it involves you twisting the remote rather than moving it left and right. Looking forward to the release of the pointer fix. Looks like it works great with the sensor bar on a computer

Tried it on my G4 cube last night. Once you get it working, it works ok. It's unfiltered movement though, so double clicking is hell.
Marathon Aleph One (only game i have installed) crashed when I tried to play it while running DarwinRemote. I'll give it a few more days :)

"4. I am a wii owner and I hate Macs!

Posted at 9:45AM on Dec 8th 2006 by coffee 0 stars"

ditto

Works fine on my hackintosh with a Bluetooth USB dongle. It really needs a UT or Quake 3 mod to wrap the cursor like Wii games, though...

To the Mac haters...

I have a Macbook Pro and XP installed through Parallels. Sure, the hardware is expensive, but show me another similarly priced notebook with the same build quality (all aluminium, built-in isight, bluetooth etc) and there'll be 100 other ugly Vaio, Toshibas, Dells, and HP notebooks. I can honestly say the Macbook Pro and Powerbook G4 are the only notebooks that I've ever been totally satisfied with.

Every single Win noteook I've had has been a nightmare, and now that OSX and XP can happily co-exist on the same machine - there is really no excuse. But hey, if you want to save a few hundred dollars and are happy with a PC notebook (spyware-infested, often bulky, badly designed, loaded with unnecessary shit like AOL, Vongo, etc and an OS that's years old already) that's your choice. Just don't preach to me about how much Macs suck - because I coudn't care less.